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“Highlights + Senate” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D986-D989 on Oct. 1, 2004.
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Friday, October 1, 2004
Daily Digest
HIGHLIGHTS
See Resume of Congressional Activity.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10195-S10287
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 2880-2884, and S. Res. 445.
Pages S10261-62
Measures Reported:
S. 1134, to reauthorize and improve the programs authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 108-382)
Page S10261
Measures Passed:
Background Checks Programs: Senate passed S. 2882,to make the program for national criminal history background checks for volunteer groups permanent.
Pages S10276-77
Prevention of Child Abduction Partnership Act: Senate passed S. 2883,to amend the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to limit the tort liability of private entities or organizations that carry out responsibilities of the United States Central Authority under that Act.
Pages S10276-77
Missing Child Cold Case Review Act: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. 2435, to permit Inspectors General to authorize staff to provide assistance to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the bill was then passed.
Pages S10277-78
Kitt Peak Project: Senate passed H.R. 5105, to authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out construction and related activities in support of the collaborative Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) project on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona., clearing the measure for the President.
Page S10278
Church Pension Plans: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1533, to amend the securities laws to permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts, and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
Page S10278
Frist (for Shelby/Sarbanes) Amendment No. 3948, to make a technical correction.
Page S10278
Rail Security Act: Senate passed S. 2273, to provide increased rail transportation security, after agreeing to the committee amendments.
Pages S10278-85
Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act: Senate passed S. 2884, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security.
Pages S10285-87
National Intelligence Reform Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 2845, to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S10197-S10254
Adopted:
Allard Amendment No. 3765, to provide for additional responsibilities for the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security relating to geographic information.
Page S10197
Levin Amendment No. 3808, to enhance customer focus on intelligence and to ensure independent intelligence analyses.
Pages S10217-18
McCain/Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 3807, to develop a strategy for combining terrorist travel intelligence, operations, and law enforcement.
Pages S10197, S10215-16, S10247
Collins (for Coleman) Amendment No. 3798, to amend section 510 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to ensure widespread access to the Information Sharing Network.
Page S10248
Collins (for Coleman) Amendment No. 3799, to require the enterprise architecture and implementation plan for the Information Sharing Network to include equipment and training requirements and utilization costs.
Page S10248
Collins (for Coleman) Amendment No. 3800, to find that the United States needs to implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendation to adopt a unified incident command system and significantly enhance communications connectivity among first responders.
Page S10248
Collins (for Snowe) Amendment No. 3911, to require a report on the methodologies utilized for National Intelligence Estimates.
Page S10248
Collins (for Snowe) Amendment No. 3912, to require an evaluation of the effectiveness of the National Counterrorism Center.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Snowe) Amendment No. 3932, relating to alternative analyses of intelligence by the intelligence community.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Frist) Amendment No. 3864, to extend section 145 (c) of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Bingaman) Amendment 3772, to establish the position of Chief Scientist of the National Intelligence Authority.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Reed) Amendment No. 3813, to find that risk assessments and protective measures for liquefied natural gas marine terminals should be included in the plan of the Secretary of Homeland Security to protect critical infrastructure.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 3717, to provide that the Intelligence Community Reserve Corps shall have a personnel strength level authorized by law.
Pages S10248-50
Collins (for Bingaman/Domenici) Modified Amendment No. 3771, to authorize employees of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and certain employees of the Department of Energy national laboratories to be eligible for the staff of the National Counterterrorism Center and the national intelligence centers.
Page S10250
Collins (for Graham (FL)) Amendment No. 3756, to establish additional education and training requirements for the National Intelligence Authority.
Page S10250
Pending:
Collins Amendment No. 3705, to provide for homeland security grant coordination and simplification.
Page S10197
Lautenberg Amendment No. 3767, to specify that the National Intelligence Director shall serve for one or more terms of up to 5 years each.
Page S10197
Kyl Amendment No. 3801, to modify the privacy and civil liberties oversight.
Pages S10197, S10222-24
Feinstein Amendment No. 3718, to improve the intelligence functions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Page S10197
Stevens Amendment No. 3839, to strike section 201, relating to public disclosure of intelligence funding.
Page S10197
Ensign Amendment No. 3819, to require the Secretary of State to increase the number of consular officers, clarify the responsibilities and functions of consular officers, and require the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase the number of border patrol agents and customs enforcement investigators.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3887, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to cover individuals, other than United States persons, who engage in international terrorism without affiliation with an international terrorist group.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3888, to establish the United States Homeland Security Signal Corps to ensure proper communications between law enforcement agencies.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3889, to establish a National Commission on the United States-Saudi Arabia Relationship.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3890, to improve the security of hazardous materials transported by truck.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3891, to improve rail security.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3892, to strengthen border security.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3893, to require inspection of cargo at ports in the United States.
Page S10197
Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3894, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance cybersecurity.
Page S10197
Allard Amendment No. 3778, to improve the management of the personnel of the National Intelligence Authority.
Pages S10198-99
Byrd Amendment No. 3845, to enhance the role of Congress in the oversight of the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government.
Page S10102
Warner Modified Amendment No. 3877, to modify the role of the National Intelligence Director in the appointment of intelligence officials of the United States Government.
Pages S10208-11, S10244
Leahy/Grassley Amendment No. 3945, to require Congressional oversight of translators employed and contracted for by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Pages S10211-12
Reed Amendment No. 3908, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security.
Pages S10212-13
Reid (for Corzine/Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3849, to protect human health and the environment from the release of hazardous substances by acts of terrorism.
Pages S10215, S10236
Reid (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3782, to require that any Federal funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for grants or other assistance be allocated based strictly on an assessment of risks and vulnerabilities.
Page S10215
Reid (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3905, to provide for maritime transportation security.
Page S10215
Reid (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3821, to modify the functions of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Page S10215
Roberts Amendment No. 3748, to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the Ombudsman of the National Intelligence Authority and of the Analytic Review Unit within the Office of the Ombudsman.
Pages S10218-19
Roberts Amendment No. 3739, to ensure the sharing of intelligence information in a manner that promotes all-sources analysis and to assign responsibility for competitive analysis.
Pages S10219-20
Roberts Amendment No. 3750, to clarify the responsibilities of the Directorate of Intelligence of the National Counterterrorism Center for information-sharing and intelligence analysis.
Pages S10219-20
Roberts Amendment No. 3747, to provide the National Intelligence Director with flexible administrative authority with respect to the National Intelligence Authority.
Page S10220
Roberts Amendment No. 3742, to clarify the continuing applicability of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 to the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated for the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States.
Pages S10220-21
Roberts Amendment No. 3740, to include among the primary missions of the National Intelligence Director the elimination of barriers to the coordination of intelligence activities.
Pages S10221-22
Roberts Amendment No. 3741, to permit the National Intelligence Director to modify National Intelligence Program budgets before their approval and submittal to the President.
Pages S10221-22
Roberts Amendment No. 3744, to clarify the limitation on the transfer of funds and personnel and to preserve and enhance congressional oversight of intelligence activities.
Pages S10221-22
Roberts Amendment No. 3751, to clarify the responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense pertaining to the National Intelligence Program.
Pages S10221-22
Kyl Amendment No. 3926, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that nonimmigrant visas are not issued to individuals with connections to terrorism or who intend to carry out terrorist activities in the United States.
Pages S10224-25
Kyl Amendment No. 3881, to protect crime victims' rights.
Page S10225
Kyl Amendment No. 3724, to strengthen anti-terrorism investigative tools, promote information sharing, punish terrorist offenses.
Pages S10225-31
Stevens Amendment No. 3826, to modify the duties of the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center as the principal advisor to the President on counterterrorism matters.
Pages S10231-34
Stevens Amendment No. 3827, to strike section 206, relating to information sharing.
Pages S10231-34
Stevens Amendment No. 3829, to amend the effective date provision.
Pages S10231-34
Stevens Amendment No. 3840, to strike the fiscal and acquisition authorities of the National Intelligence Authority.
Pages S10231-34
Stevens Amendment No. 3882, to propose an alternative section 141, relating to the Inspector General of the National Intelligence Authority.
Pages S10234-36
Collins (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3946 (to Amendment No. 3849), in the nature of a substitute.
Page S10236
Sessions Amendment No. 3928, to require aliens to make an oath prior to receiving a nonimmigrant visa.
Pages S10239-42
Sessions Amendment No. 3873, to protect railroad carriers and mass transportation from terrorism.
Pages S10239-42
Sessions Amendment No. 3871, to provide for enhanced Federal, State, and local enforcement of the immigration laws.
Pages S10239-42
Sessions Amendment No. 3870, to make information sharing permanent under the USA PATRIOT ACT.
Pages S10239-42
Warner Amendment No. 3876, to preserve certain authorities and accountability in the implementation of intelligence reform.
Page S10242
Collins (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 3803, to provide for enhanced criminal penalties for crimes related to alien smuggling.
Pages S10250-51
Collins (for Baucus/Roberts) Modified Amendment No. 3768, to require an annual report on the allocation of funding within the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury.
Pages S10250-51
Collins (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3903, to strike section 201, relating to public disclosure of intelligence funding.
Pages S10251-52
Frist (for McConnell) Amendment No. 3930, to clarify that a volunteer for a federally-created citizen volunteer program and for the program's State and local affiliates is protected by the Volunteer Protection Act.
Page S10253
Frist (for McConnell) Amendment No. 3931, to remove civil liability barriers that discourage the donation of equipment to volunteer fire companies.
Page S10253
A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Tuesday, October 5, 2004.
Page S10254
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that notwithstanding the filing deadline for first degree amendments, it be in order for the Managers to propose cleared amendments prior to the cloture vote.
Page S10253
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 4:15 p.m., on Monday, October 4, 2004 the Senate proceed to votes in relation to certain amendments, and that no second degree amendments be in order to these amendments prior to the votes.
Page S10254
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the bill at 11 a.m., on Monday, October 4, 2004.
Page S10287
Appointments:
Commission on Systemic Interoperability: The Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 108-173, appointed the following individuals to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability: Vicky B. Gregg of Tennessee, and Ivan G. Seidenberg of New York.
Page S10276
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be United States Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund for a term of five years.
(Reappointment) (Prior to this action, Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from further consideration.)
Pages S10276, S10287
Measures Placed on Calendar:
Page S10261
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S10262-63
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S10263-65
Additional Statements:
Page S10261
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S10265-76
Privilege of the Floor:
Page S10276
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:19 p.m., until 10 a.m., on Monday, October 4, 2004. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10287.)
